HFS Plus R/W Mounting Problem

Colin Charles linux at bytebot.net
Tue Jul 13 11:59:51 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 23:50, Perera, Nelanka wrote:
> I'm trying to mount my iPod on FC2 as a read/write hfs plus file
> system.  My fstab entry looks like:
> /dev/sdb3    /mnt/ipod    hfsplus    noauto,user,rw,sync,umask=000   
> 0 0
> Sometimes it mounts as read/write but other times its just read only. 
> I've checked that the access mode of /dev/sdb3 is 666.
>  
> Is this a problem with sbp2, or an hfsplus issue?  How do I make it
> mount as read/write every time?

What kernel are you using? I'm tracking rawhide, and the latest arjanv
kernels tend to have better firewire support

What about logs? Does dmesg or /var/log/messages report back anything
useful?

I presume this is on an x86 machine as well? 
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